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by:Dan Lyke started: 2007-06-20 22:25:24.898865+02 updated: 2007-06-20 22:25:24.898865+02

Zenger was a printer in New York who was acquitted on "seditious libel" charges on August 5, 1735, because his defense lawyer asked the jury to judge the validity of the law.

His case is one of the classic examples of jury nullification.

See: the trial of John Peter Zenger,


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